The Saratoga
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] The libellants shipped, as mariners, on board of the ship Saratoga, on a voyage from Boston for Amelia Island, at and from thence to port or ports in Europe, and at and from thence to her port of discharge in the United States.
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[Appeal from the district court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts.] The libellants shipped, as mariners, on board of the ship Saratoga, on a voyage from Boston for Amelia Island, at and from thence to port or ports in Europe, and at and from thence to her port of discharge in the United States. The ship sailed from Boston in October. 1811. for St. Mary’s, where she took in a cargo, and thence proceeded to Portsmouth in England, where her cargo was discharged. The agents of the owners having engaged a cargo on freight, at Londonderry in Ireland for the United States, the…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice,
(after reciting the facts). The question for the consideration of the court is, whether the libellants are entitled, under all the circumstances of the case, to any wages beyond what they have already received; and if so entitled, for what period wages are to be allowed? It is argued, on behalf of the respondents, that the libellants have no further claim for wages, no freight having been earned, and the voyage having been, by the capture and subsequent declaration of war between Great Britain and the United States, completely broken up and defeated. The general rule is…
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